SAN JOSE — The family of a child who attended Walden West environmental camp filed a claim Thursday seeking compensation from the Santa Clara County Office of Education, in the wake of the arrest of a camp manager on child pornography and molestation charges.

The child, a 10-year-old identified only as Jack Doe in the claim, attended the camp with his fifth-grade class from the Evergreen School District in January. The claim, a legal precursor to a lawsuit, seeks an unspecified amount.

Edgar Covarrubias-Padilla was arrested May 7 at the camp in the foothills of Cupertino. On Wednesday, allegations that he manufactured child pornography were added to the charges against him. He is in Santa Clara County Jail in lieu of $200,000 bail.

Neither county office Superintendent Jon Gundry nor Santa Clara County Board of Education President Darcie Green could be immediately reached for comment.

Covarrubias-Padilla was the night manager at Walden West’s Cupertino campus, and lived in staff housing at the camp’s Saratoga campus. He also substituted in various roles at the camp, where fifth- and sixth-graders from throughout the county stay for weeklong sessions learning about science and the environment. He was known to kids as “Papa Bear.”

The county office of education fired him after his arrest.

The claim accuses the office of education, the county board of education and camp Director Anita Parsons, who has been placed on leave, of negligence and carelessness.

The claim says that “Jack” has suffered severe mental and emotional distress and that his parents, identified as John and Jane Doe, face the expense of mental-health care for him. The family’s attorney, Richard Alexander, said that the boy returned from camp moody, scared, anxious and unusually clingy — much different from the robust child that he had been.

The child reported that Papa Bear would come into the students’ cabin at night, and also would take boys for walks in the woods.

In molestation cases, details from children emerge only with time, Alexander said. “It’s an artichoke. You get a little information, then a little more, and when the right people ask the right question in the right setting, it helps us understand so much more.”